arab spring

The modern Middle East has been wracked by chaos and instability. The hopes and aspirations of the Arab Spring and, in Turkey’s case, the liberalizing of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, have given way to...

Sectarianism has been used as a blanket explanation for all the Middle East’s ills, or completely dismissed as an epiphenomenon of more tangible struggles for territory and resources. But somewhere between these two positions...

Egypt’s current government has focused on improving national security as the panacea to their country’s political woes—but as Egyptian leaders should know well, harsh crackdowns and institutional fear do...